The picture in TFA is rather small, but by the looks of it, the barn is simply a tent on a fixed frame. The article makes it sound like they have a zipper or something to keep birds and insects out:
And, like any good barn, the protective shell serves to keep out critters and tumbleweeds.
I think after six years it's safe to say that trying to beat WoW at its own game is futile. If you want to surpass WoW as the world's leading MMO, you can't just copy their model.
The approach that ArenaNet appears to be taking with Guild Wars 2 is more sensible. They've thrown out many things which could be considered as fundamental in an MMO, but are actually limiting or frustrating. This includes things like grinding, quests that have no impact, text based plot and more subtle concepts such as the DPS/tank/heal arrangement.
If any game is capable of surpassing WoW, my money would be on GW2.
They developed a computer system that tracks feature points on a user's face via a camera and then compares the input with entries in a database of hundreds of predefined mental states to interpret the combinations of gestures as emotions.
Could this be used to analyse microexpressions? Microexpression analysis has significant potential for improving lie detector tests beyond simple polygraphs.
36.6 million of 69 million actions on Xbox is about 53%. The graph shows less than 25% completion. Same applies for the PS3 graph, where 40% completion is represented by aproximately 20% on the graph.
It's pretty brave to announce a release date in a week that's been pretty much cornered by the Call of Duty franchise. If those two big titles release in the same week, things will be interesting.
Wikileaks is undeniably in the chain of events that led to the "revenge" DDoSs. However, claiming that they "caused" the attacks implies that they are partly responsible, which I don't feel is accurate.
Summarised chain of events: Wikileaks releases big leak > governments complain > Amazon, Paypal, Visa terminate Wikileaks's service; Wikileaks gets DDoSed > sympathetic third parties DDoS Amazon, Paypal and Visa.
That's quite a few steps to imply causation. To use a car analogy, it would be the equivalent of claiming that one traffic light's timing caused an accident three intersections down the road.
Did you actually think about how others use the keys before you so cavalierly decided to banish a key? And why pick on insert delete when there is so much more low hanging fruit? Why not pick on F9-F12? Scroll lock?! Or the duplicated forward slashes or pipe key? Who uses tilde or grave!? And I guess we couldn't get rid of one set or the other of the windows keys?
Personally, I cannot dispense with a single key for me or my clients.
I agree fully with keys being indispensable. But even removing the "low hanging fruit" is likely to make a lot of people very angry:
F10: used in many games to bring up the menu.
F11: very common shortcut key for switching an application to fullscreen.
Scroll lock: occasionally useful to pause the pages of text running through your console (Linux). On windows I remap it as a PTT button on my mouse, but that's just cause it's the least likely button to interfere with games. Second most likely key to be banished.
Forward slashes: left one is for typing/coding. You may notice the right hand one is part of a calculator-like arrangement. It is definitely useful.
Pipe key: Mainly used in coding environments. On my keyboard it's shift-\, so if you're using a Microsoft OS, I wouldn't recommend dumping it since you may need it to type paths.
Tilde/grave: Non-English languages, programming.
Windows keys: If you absolutely must drop a key, the right hand windows key will have to go.
tl;dr - all keys are used by somebody, so lets not go dumping keys just because we don't use it.
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Until the birds start nesting in it...
The picture in TFA is rather small, but by the looks of it, the barn is simply a tent on a fixed frame. The article makes it sound like they have a zipper or something to keep birds and insects out:
And, like any good barn, the protective shell serves to keep out critters and tumbleweeds.
I think after six years it's safe to say that trying to beat WoW at its own game is futile. If you want to surpass WoW as the world's leading MMO, you can't just copy their model.
The approach that ArenaNet appears to be taking with Guild Wars 2 is more sensible. They've thrown out many things which could be considered as fundamental in an MMO, but are actually limiting or frustrating. This includes things like grinding, quests that have no impact, text based plot and more subtle concepts such as the DPS/tank/heal arrangement.
If any game is capable of surpassing WoW, my money would be on GW2.
They developed a computer system that tracks feature points on a user's face via a camera and then compares the input with entries in a database of hundreds of predefined mental states to interpret the combinations of gestures as emotions.
Could this be used to analyse microexpressions? Microexpression analysis has significant potential for improving lie detector tests beyond simple polygraphs.
My favourite hack is the one which allows you to hold the phone any way you please.
36.6 million of 69 million actions on Xbox is about 53%. The graph shows less than 25% completion. Same applies for the PS3 graph, where 40% completion is represented by aproximately 20% on the graph.
Hacktivism, n.
A grouping of people who have something in common: hacking cough
It's pretty brave to announce a release date in a week that's been pretty much cornered by the Call of Duty franchise. If those two big titles release in the same week, things will be interesting.
Source? Not at all. Cause? Yup.
Wikileaks is undeniably in the chain of events that led to the "revenge" DDoSs. However, claiming that they "caused" the attacks implies that they are partly responsible, which I don't feel is accurate.
Summarised chain of events: Wikileaks releases big leak > governments complain > Amazon, Paypal, Visa terminate Wikileaks's service; Wikileaks gets DDoSed > sympathetic third parties DDoS Amazon, Paypal and Visa.
That's quite a few steps to imply causation. To use a car analogy, it would be the equivalent of claiming that one traffic light's timing caused an accident three intersections down the road.
...sail off into the sunset
The TSA isn't the problem. Politicians scaring the public, and a public easily scared are the problem.
Politicians scaring the public, TSA scarring the public.
After only reading the title:
"Mom, I can't stop playing Black Ops to clean my room - Slashdot says I'm saving lives!"
I firmly believe that the way the products we have are going, they need to be connected online...
... in an attempt to curb piracy. This has nothing to do with actual multiplayer.
I wouldn't mind more games with full campaign co-op, though.
Did you actually think about how others use the keys before you so cavalierly decided to banish a key? And why pick on insert delete when there is so much more low hanging fruit? Why not pick on F9-F12? Scroll lock?! Or the duplicated forward slashes or pipe key? Who uses tilde or grave!? And I guess we couldn't get rid of one set or the other of the windows keys?
Personally, I cannot dispense with a single key for me or my clients.
I agree fully with keys being indispensable. But even removing the "low hanging fruit" is likely to make a lot of people very angry:
F10: used in many games to bring up the menu.
F11: very common shortcut key for switching an application to fullscreen.
Scroll lock: occasionally useful to pause the pages of text running through your console (Linux). On windows I remap it as a PTT button on my mouse, but that's just cause it's the least likely button to interfere with games. Second most likely key to be banished.
Forward slashes: left one is for typing/coding. You may notice the right hand one is part of a calculator-like arrangement. It is definitely useful.
Pipe key: Mainly used in coding environments. On my keyboard it's shift-\, so if you're using a Microsoft OS, I wouldn't recommend dumping it since you may need it to type paths.
Tilde/grave: Non-English languages, programming.
Windows keys: If you absolutely must drop a key, the right hand windows key will have to go.
tl;dr - all keys are used by somebody, so lets not go dumping keys just because we don't use it.